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Climate reporting heats up debate over oil sands

By Erika Zell Photo by By Mark Burnham Oil sands advocates may have been given some unexpected fuel for their fire this month, with the release of a new study claiming that burning off the entire Alberta oil sands would only raise global temperatures by 0.36 degrees Celsius. The study, “The Alberta oil sands and climate: The claimed economic benefits of exploiting the vast Alberta oil-sand deposits need to be weighed against the need to limit global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions”, was co-authored by Neil Swart and Andrew Weaver and published in the journal Nature Climate Change. At its…

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